polhol 💔🐴 land

Latest merch (official and fanmade) haul!

Official merchs are mostly Polnareff. Stickers of the gang, the purple and orange PolPol and the three PolPol + Jotaro and Hol Horse photocards are from the Sushiro Japan collab.

With that red Hol trading card and the Hol keychain, I can safely say I'm about 85% done collecting merchs of the cowboy. I know I'm missing a few things like his official merch hat, some rare old badges, standees, shirts and a silly Thoth-Hol plushie. And I heard there's more of him coming soon.

Fanmade merchs are mostly made from well-known Hol Horse fanartists. I got them from pixiv's marketplace Booth. The HolPol doujin, I can't remember from which shop, but idc...BC IT'S THE ONE AND ONLY HOLPOL FANBOOK IN EXISTENCE! I'm so, so happy to finally own a copy! 💕

As I said before, I don't mind. The longer time you give the animators to animate, the better it will be. Dorohedoro is a great example of that...6 years between, bruh, yet we get weeklies and top-notch animation by the end of the day.

I have this JoJo AU for some time now. Idk how will it fair with the many aus already established by other fans, or if I would expand it beyond just this post...but it'll be a shame not to share it.

I call this the PODIUM BOYS AU

Based on Dio always wanting to be No 1, Hol saying No 2 is better and Kira keeping himself mellow at No 3. Hence.

In this au, they live in the same flat, attending the same college. I made Dio genderfluid and bi in this au, he's loud and often had beef with a collegemate (Jonathan, naturally). He majored in performative arts, spills tea like a hand sanitizer dispenser and works out often in the gym. He loves to annoy Hol but respects Kira in a way.

Hol is pan but is in a relationship with Polnareff. He's very laidback to a point everyone - including his bf - thought he was lazy. But he scored his exams well, and majored in an engineering course. He put on whatever clothes he had and never cared if they were mismatched. He also can't cook to save his life, so Dio and Kira made sure he stayed out of the kitchen.

Kira is, by far, straight...maybe curious. He's the unintentional mother of the three. He cooked for everyone, cleaned the flat, and really just put up with any shenanigans going on. He majored in accounting and he barely stand out as a student. He likes cats. Dio and Hol were scared of him sometimes.

More PolPol trading cards!

And now I can't stop comparing their animation styles. Don't get me wrong, I think David Productions did well with all the JoJo seasons...but I was expecting the animation game to be greater with SBR, since it is Araki's peak JoJo chapter, the one he actually wanted to serialise from the very beginning, the one that incorporated both his love for cowboys and music.

Then Mappa came up with the animation for Dorohedoro, which, mind you, is not easy to animate because unlike JoJo, which gives you an action movement panel by panel, Dorohedoro's actions can be compressed to only one panel (like 2-3 things happening in one shot). And Mappa animators nailed it. The filling-in-the-blanks probably gave the animators more liberty, but JoJo could have had the same approach too.

That said, while rearranging the cards (+ stickers and postcards), I took the liberty to photograph them.

All photos under the cut :)

(be warned, it's mostly Hol Horse and Polnareff...)

I can counter-argue that in the 19th Century America (until mid-20th Century unfortunately), 14-year olds were considered matured enough to be in love with and courted into marriage. Education and awareness weren't that great back then everywhere in the world, and only the truly privileged girls from privileged families could have the option to not marry young.

If they want to put Mountain Tim in that category, then don't excuse Steven Steel too. Man's older to Lucy by 39 years. Plus, if fans truly read SBR, yes, Mountain Tim fell in love with Lucy, but he never pursued her out of respect. He even protected her (and our two protags too) until the very end.

Really, bruh. Wth. Give him some credit.

Yes.

I drew this for a Part 5 au where post-CDDH Hol got himself hired by Pericolo as Trish's bodyguard and eventually joined Bruno's team on their mission. Partly why he was in Italy was to track down Polnareff, also to find a job bc he's a broke arse merc.